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How to Apply

To apply to the NSF NRT Accessibility, Rehabilitation, Movement Science (ARMS): An Interdisciplinary Training Program in Human-Centered Robotics, students must first be accepted into an approved Ph.D. Program at Georgia Tech. There are two types of students in the program: fellows and scholars.

Fellow (Must be a Robotics Ph.D. major and a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident)

Scholar (Can be another major; no financial support provided)

You may apply to the Robotics Ph.D. Program through one of the participating units, which will be considered the home unit:

Aerospace Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Interactive Computing

Mechanical Engineering

This traineeship program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program under Award #1545287. Some doctoral students may be supported with fellowship funding available, under certain circumstances.

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U.S. Citizen? *

Yes

No

U.S. Permanent Resident? *

Yes

No

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Ph.D. Program into which you have been accepted: *

Robotics

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Bioengineering

Biomedical Engineering (Joint Emory/GT program)

Other

I'm interested in being an ARMS: *

Fellow (Must be a Robotics Ph.D. major and a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident)

Scholar (Can be another major; no financial support provided)

Brief Statement of Research Interest: *

Please limit your statement to 500 words.

Please select three ARMS faculty with whom you are interested in working toward your Ph.D.: *

Ayanna Howard (ECE)

Charlie Kemp (BME)

Lena Ting (BME/Emory)

Frank L. Hammond III (ME/BME)

Jun Ueda (ME)

Minoru Shinohara (AP)

Steven Wolf (Emory)

Maysam Ghovanloo (ECE)

Omer Inan (ECE)

Jaydev Desai (BME)

Chethan Pandarinath (BME/Emory)

Aaron Young (ME)

Irfan Essa (IC)

Matthew Gombolay (IC)

Gil Weinberg (Music)

Greg Sawicki (ME)

Karen Liu (IC)

Anirban Mazunmdar (ME)

Please select only THREE (3) options.

Have you communicated with any NRT faculty members, students, or staff members? If yes, whom? *